EDU 675

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EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment Professional Development and

Research
EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional Learning Communities
EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture and Differentiated Instruction
EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the Professional Learning
Community
EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking Questions
EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Strategies to Build Culture
EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job-Embedded Learning
EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 2 Four Corners

 EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment

Professional Development and Research

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Professional Development and Research.

Search the University Library databases for two articles discussing the benefits of a
professional learning community to school culture and examine Figure 2 of your text,
Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and
Supervision. Using this research, design a professional development plan for your
school that will positively impact school culture. In a three- to five-page paper, discuss
the following:
a. Summarize your research and the research in Figure 2 (Joyce & Showers, 1995).
b. How is this research applicable to your work setting?

 EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional

Learning Communities

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Professional Learning Communities.

A significant part of differentiated instruction implementation is created through
professional development. Complete the Creating and Sustaining a Professional
Learning Community checklist in Chapter 1 of Differentiated Instructional Strategies
in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision (2nd ed.). How many of the
questions on this checklist are present in your current school or workplace? Based on
the results of this checklist, identify and discuss in detail four activities that would
create and sustain a professional learning community in your school or workplace.

 EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture

and Differentiated Instruction

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School Culture and Differentiated Instruction.

View the video, Transforming a School into a Professional Learning Community.
Considering your required readings and this video, what effects do differentiated
instruction and professional learning communities have on school culture? How does
differentiated instruction reflect the attitudes and values of a school building? How
can the development of a professional learning community and differentiated
professional development benefit students? Identify two examples, one negative and
one positive, in your school or workplace that affect school culture. Identify how a
professional learning community

 EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing

the Professional Learning Community

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Implementing the Professional Learning Community.

Consider the benefits of the activities proposed in your discussion of professional
learning communities. How can you implement these activities in your organization, or
how will you implement them in a future position that you will hold within an
organization? Why would these benefit your organization or a future organization?
What do you feel will be the outcome of this collaboration?

 EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical

Thinking Questions

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Critical Thinking Questions.

After reading Chapters II-1 and II-2 of Differentiated Instructional Strategies in
Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision, you will answer the following
reflective questions that will require you to think and respond critically. In a two- to
five-page paper, address the questions below, using specific examples from your
professional experience, and cite the book when possible.
a. What are the benefits to the six-column framework for differentiated instruction?
How can you use this framework in preparation for differentiated instruction? How
might a leader use it to support change or improve instruction?

 EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Strategies

to Build Culture

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Strategies to Build Culture.

Select a strategy that can be used for building relationships within an educational or
work setting. After selecting this strategy, use the University Library databases to
locate two articles that focus on using this strategy in either the classroom or in a
professional development setting. In a three- to five-page paper, not including title
and reference pages, describe the strategy and summarize the findings of the two
research articles that you found. Discuss how this strategy may benefit the culture
within your school or workplace to improve instruction. Include APA-formatted
citations for appropriate references or links.

 EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job Embedded

Learning

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Job-Embedded Learning.
How does your school or workplace use job-embedded learning? After reading
Chapters II-1 and II-2, discuss two strategies that you would offer to your
administrator or supervisor to increase engagement in job-embedded learning. How
will these strategies increase the effectiveness of job-embedded learning at your
school or workplace? Discuss your rationale for choosing these two strategies.

 EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 2 Four Corners

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Four Corners.
What is the purpose of the Four Corners strategy? How could it be used in a
classroom? How could it be used in a professional development setting?
Conceptualize and summarize how the Four Corners strategy may be used to
develop a concept of interest to you, keeping an intended audience in mind (i.e.,
students or colleagues). Include various leadership aspects and incorporate
differentiated instruction techniques into your concept. For example, you can develop
a concept for teacher training, where leadership plays an important role in
professional development.

 EDU 675 Week 2 Journal Encouraging

Team Building Throughout the Year

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Encouraging Team Building Throughout the Year.

Identify three ways in which you feel you can encourage team building throughout the
year. Assume that you are an administrator or a teacher leader at a school. What
additional managerial tasks could you use in order to maintain the effectiveness of
this team building? How would

 EDU 675 Week 3 Assignment Using

Assessment and Feedback

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Using Assessment and Feedback.

Using ProQuest or other online sources, compile at least five references related to
assessment and feedback strategies for differentiated instruction in a gifted
classroom. Assume that you are a teacher in a gifted classroom with students who
exhibit multiple intelligences represented among your students. In a three- to fivepage paper, select and discuss a pre-assessment and post-assessment that would
differentiate instruction to support your students multiple intelligences. How would
you use feedback from these assessments

 EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 1 Multiple

Intelligences

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Multiple Intelligences.
Review the information on the Multiple Intelligences interactive chart and click on the
Take a Test tab. Complete the test and view your results. Share your results with
your classmates. How will the results impact your own choices for learning? Do you
believe your education would have been improved if your own teachers had
differentiated instruction based on your multiple intelligences? What influence do the
theories of multiple intelligence have on differentiated instruction? Do you believe that
learning improves when it is tailored to learning preferences, or does it just make
learning more enjoyable?

 EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 2 Assessment

Strategies

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Assessment Strategies.
Analyze the assessment strategies presented in your reading and within your
research on differentiated instruction. Identify two assessment strategies that may be
used to differentiate instruction in a low-performing school. How do these assessment
strategies benefit a high-performing student in a low-performing class? Would you
use the same assessment strategies in a high-performing class that contained one or
more low-performing students? Provide rationale for your answers.

 EDU 675 Week 4 Assignment Critical

Thinking Questions

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Critical Thinking Questions.

After reading Chapters II-5 through II-8 of Differentiated Instructional Strategies in
Practice, you will answer the following reflective questions that will require you to
think and respond critically. In a two- to five-page paper, address the following
questions using specific examples from your professional experience and cite the
textbook or other scholarly resources.
a. What is a successful lesson framework composed of? How would this framework
vary between two different content areas?

 EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 1 Adjustable

Assignments, Compacting, and Grouping

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Adjustable Assignments, Compacting, and Grouping.

How are adjustable assignments, compacting, and grouping used in differentiated
instruction? Provide a brief summary of, as well as a strategy for implementing, each
technique discussed in the reading. Imagine that you are providing professional
development on these topics. Which strategies from your reading would you use?
Which strategies would you omit if time constraints did not permit you to use all of
them? How would you assess the understanding and implementation of the training?

 EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 2 Graphic

Organizers

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Graphic Organizers.
Chapter II-6 of your text discusses several graphic organizers that can be used for
student success. Which of these have you used with students? Of those you have not
used, which would you try in a classroom? How can you differentiate instruction with
graphic organizers? Discuss a concept that is important to you. Which graphic
organizer would you use to teach this concept to your coworkers?

 EDU 675 Week 4 Journal Personal

Reflection

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Personal Reflection.
Critically reflect on your work thus far. What have you learned about the uses of
differentiated instruction in both the classroom and in professional development? How
will you use what you have learned to benefit your organization or an organization
that you will work for in the future?

 EDU 675 Week 5 Assignment Critical

Thinking Questions

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Critical Thinking Questions.

Research three articles that focus on teacher/school leadership. Answer the following
reflective questions that will require you to think and respond critically. In a one- to
two-page paper, address the following questions, using specific examples from your
professional experience and cite the three articles you found throughout the paper.
a. What is a teacher leader? How can you lead your organization through your
individual capabilities? What leadership principles would you draw on?
b. What type of change will you implement in your organization or in a future
organization

 EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 1 Implementing

Change

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Implementing Change.
Review Figure 80 in your reading. Describe a situation in your past experience where
you implemented change or could have implemented change. How could you use this
chart to increase the effects of this change? Was this change process a success?
Based on your readings, how could you have increased the likelihood of success in
this situation? Describe a situation that you have encountered where a supportive
response may have increased your adaptability to change.

 EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 2 Managing Change

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Managing Change.
Change can be difficult for some people. Think about a change you would like to see
in your educational or work environment. How would you implement this change?
Consider and discuss the possible resistance that you may encounter from your
professional community. How would you support people throughout the change
process? How would you overcome any resistance to the change?

 EDU 675 Week 5 Journal Teacher

Leadership

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Teacher Leadership.
Read the required article, Asking the Right Questions (Reason, C. & Reason, L.,
2007). Reflect on what you have learned about teacher leadership. How can you
implement change within an organization? How do you manage this change outside
of a designated leadership position?

 EDU 675 Week 6 DQ 1 Supporting

Change

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Supporting Change.
How does your work setting sustain morale and commitment from employees in times
of change? Is the current support for change in your workplace successful? What
strategies for supporting change in your work environment would you provide to your
administrators? Why did you select these strategies? Support your discussion with
references from the required reading.

 EDU 675 Week 6 DQ 2 Managing vs.

Supporting Change

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Managing vs. Supporting Change.

Identify a change that is presently occurring in your organization and provide your
classmates with a background for the rationale behind this change. If you were
assigned to support and manage this change, how would you do this? What would
you do differently in managing and supporting this change? Provide rationale for your
decisions based on the reading and one additional source.

 EDU 675 Week 6 Final Paper

Differentiated Instruction Research Papera

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Differentiated Instruction Research Paper

During each week of this course, you will research and analyze differentiated
instruction and the leadership principles necessary to implement effective
professional development for understanding differentiated instruction. Using the
assignment in Week Five as the foundation for your Final Paper, identify an area in
need of professional development for differentiated instruction at your worksite. In a
paper that is at least eight pages in length, excluding title and reference pages,
research the objectives, assessments, strategies, and implementation of a
professional development plan to address this need. Make sure to include

 EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership

Through Professional Learning
Communities

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EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through Professional Learning Communities